A LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED STAINED HORN, TORTOISESHELL AND MOTHER-OF-PEARL BOULLE MARQUETRY BRACKET CLOCK**
A LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED STAINED HORN, TORTOISESHELL AND MOTHER-OF-PEARL BOULLE MARQUETRY BRACKET CLOCK**

THE CLOCK CASE STAMPED TWICE AND THE BRACKET STAMPED ONCE 'J. GOYER' AND 'JME', THE DIAL SIGNED 'J.BOUCHET A.PARIS', CIRCA 1745 - 1749, PARTIALLY REMOUNTED INCLUDING FLORAL SPRAY TO TOP AND THE SIDES OF BASE

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A LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED STAINED HORN, TORTOISESHELL AND MOTHER-OF-PEARL BOULLE MARQUETRY BRACKET CLOCK**
THE CLOCK CASE STAMPED TWICE AND THE BRACKET STAMPED ONCE 'J. GOYER' AND 'JME', THE DIAL SIGNED 'J.BOUCHET A.PARIS', CIRCA 1745 - 1749, PARTIALLY REMOUNTED INCLUDING FLORAL SPRAY TO TOP AND THE SIDES OF BASE
The circular dial of foliate-cast ormolu with white enamel Roman and Arabic chapters, the center signed 'J. Bouchet A Paris', blued steel hands, the movement with rectangular plates joined by four back-pinned pillars, verge escapement with silk suspended pendulum, countwheel strike on a bell, similarly signed backplate,with enamelled Roman numerals and signed, within a shaped case inlaid overall with multi-colored floral sprays the central glazed door with scrolling acanthus and floral mounts enclosing an inlaid brass interior, on scrolled acanthus feet and on a similarly inlaid and mounted bracket, the mounts stamped eleven times with the C-couronné poinçon, regilt, some mounts stamped 'GP'
44 in. (112 cm.) high, 16½ in. (42 cm.) wide

Lot Essay

Jean Louis Bouchet horloger du Roi for the château de Bellevue in 1769, and worked in the rue Saint-Martin in 1789.

The C-couronné poinçon was a tax mark employed between March 1745 and February 1749 on any alloy containing copper.

The Goyer family specialised in clockcases and Jean Goyer (maître in 1760) and his father François (d. 1763) continued the tradition. Jean Goyer was the brother-in-law of René Dubois and they had close ties - their most celebrated collaboration was the monumental secrétaire at Waddesdon (G. de Bellaigue, The James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor, London, 1974, no. 66).

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